Archive | Fun with baseball cards

Opening baseball cards from packs gives you a chance to slowly learn about today’s baseball players. Open up a pack and take a look at each card. Analyze the photo. Read the trivia on the back. This sort of slow enjoyment is a nice alternative to today’s fast news clips and videos. Often MLB and […]

Possible future Hall-of-Famer Miguel Tejada played 91 games in 2011, but yet Topps did not include him in their 2012 base set of 660 cards. The only 2012 cards in existence for Miguel Tejada are only limited edition signature cards. SEVEN different signature cards. Print runs of: 5, 1, 5, 5, 25, 3, 15. If […]

Any and all Babe Ruth baseball cards are awesome, this one especially so because: The simplistically elegant design Classic mis-registered printing The trademark way Ruth is wearing his hat Can you think of any other reasons why?

All baseball cards have the position listed on the front of the card, right? Nope. Of the 62 base sets that Topps has produced, 19 do not feature the position on the front of the card. Traditionally, Topps would include the player’s position on the front of the card. For the first 35 years of […]

Continuing the fun with 3D baseball cards, my brother found this 1996 Sammy Sosa Sportflics card on eBay. I was so taken aback by the delight of seeing Sammy Sosa in 3d, that I sent a message to the seller of this card. Hi tommybill100, Sammy Sosa in 3D!? That’s like a real life Sammy […]

“What’s special about a buster posey card?” Question from Erik Maldre. Answer: Buster Posey in 3D! Lenticular technology comes back to baseball cards for 2013! vine.co/v/bD3UlzgLxFF — 57 hits (@57hits) March 26, 2013 3d baseball cards are back! Back in 1986 Sportflics made cards that changed photographs when you moved the card. I never understood […]

This is humbling. All these 1989 sets for only $24 total. 1989 and 1990 were the peak years of my brother and I collecting baseball cards. The years when all the card companies over-produced a ton of cards so they are worth nothing now. But that’s fine with me. I’m glad that the cards are […]

Folding a baseball card in half is considered one of the grave sins of destruction. Collectors turn their nose on a cease mark. Take a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card in mint condition (GSA rating 8.5). In 2010 one sold for $130,000. If you folded that card in half, it drops the condition down to […]

Leaf Trading Cards says they listen to their customers. Do they really? I wrote them the following letter: Brian Gray said at his corporate address Monday that the company’s mission statement is: “Ask people what they want. Listen to what they tell you and give them what they want.” I’d like to make two points […]

Panini America announced on Tuesday that it has signed Stephen Strasburg to an exclusive autograph deal. Oh wow. I thought Topps had the corner on the market for this. I guess it’s just trading cards that Topps has the monopoly on. Well, good then. I’m happy for Panini. Time for Topps to move over to […]

Do you subscribe to Becket Baseball magazine? I haven’t since I was in high school. On the order form they ask for comments, so I let loose: This is the first time I’ve subscribed to Beckett Baseball since I was in high school in the early 1990s. I’m curious what Beckett Baseball will bring now. […]